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Hi everyone
DH built me a chicken coop last year but due to various reasons we put off getting some chickens until this year, so we should be getting some in Spring!
We built the coop ourselves out of pallets, and my only concern is there are lots of cracks or indents in the wood where I'm worried red mites might like to live.
I've thought that I could go along all these indents and fill them in with silicone which would make less hiding places for mites, but would this be safe for the chickens? I'd be doing it now and wouldn't be putting any chickens in for about a month.
Hope that makes sense! The cracks are because we've used lots of planks of pallet wood to build the walls rather than one big smooth piece of wood like the ones you see in the shops.
Thanks in advance for your help!
DH built me a chicken coop last year but due to various reasons we put off getting some chickens until this year, so we should be getting some in Spring!
We built the coop ourselves out of pallets, and my only concern is there are lots of cracks or indents in the wood where I'm worried red mites might like to live.
I've thought that I could go along all these indents and fill them in with silicone which would make less hiding places for mites, but would this be safe for the chickens? I'd be doing it now and wouldn't be putting any chickens in for about a month.
Hope that makes sense! The cracks are because we've used lots of planks of pallet wood to build the walls rather than one big smooth piece of wood like the ones you see in the shops.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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